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Stanislaw Burzyinski is from Lublin, Poland and graduated
with distinction at 24 from the medical academy in Lublin. He got
his phd when he was 25. He started working at Baylor College until
1977 when he established the Burzynski research laboratory where he
administered antineoplaston therapy to 21 patients initially. In
1984 he opened the burzynski research institute He’s been
suspected of unethical conduct and giving patients false hope. His
papers have caused a lot of controversy with his reviewers calling
the design of his trials in to question this leads some to also
question the validity of his results.

Antineoplaston therapy has been offered in the U.S. since
1984 but is not approved for general use. The compounds are not
licensed as drugs but are instead sold and administered as part of
clinical trials at the Burzynski Clinic and the Burzynski Research
Institute.[10][11][12]

Burzynski stated that he began investigating the use of
antineoplastons after detecting what he considered significant
differences in the presence of peptides between the blood of cancer
patients and a control group.[13] He
first identified antineoplastons from human blood. Since similar
peptides had been isolated from urine, early batches of Burzynski's
treatment were isolated from urine.[13] Burzynski
has since produced the compounds synthetically.[14]

The first active peptide fraction identified was called
antineoplaston A-10 (3-phenylacetylamino-2,6-piperidinedione). From
A-10, antineoplaston AS2-1 was derived – a 4:1 mixture
of phenylacetic
acid and phenylacetylglutamine.[15] The
Burzynski Clinic website states that the active ingredient of
antineoplaston A10-I is phenylacetylglutamine.[12]

Since 2011, the clinic has marketed itself as offering
"personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy" which stirred further
controversy as the treatment bears no relationship to gene-targeted
therapy and only superficially incorporates elements
of personalized
medicine.[16] The
clinic's version of personalized medicine bears little resemblance
totargeted
cancer therapy, as the clinic
includes chemotherapy drugs
and antineoplastons are part of this treatment.[17][18]

This is a small structure, about the size of a pea, situated
approximately in the centre of the head. Because it is one of the
few obviously unpaired structures in the brain, the
seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650)
suggested that it was the seat of the soul, mediating subjective
experience and intervening in the machinery of the brain in
situations of free will and moral choice. In reality, the pineal
gland is essentially part of the visual system. In mammals it
responds indirectly to light because it receives messages along
fibres from nerve cells of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of
the hypothalamus,
which themselves receive signals from the eye via
fibres of the optic nerve. The suprachiasmatic nucleus is the
body's major rhythm–generating centre — the heart of
the body
clock. In lower vertebrates the pineal gland is itself
a ‘clock’ and its cells respond directly to light. The main output
of the pineal gland is the ‘darkness’ hormone melatonin, which
is normally made at night. Melatonin, by the duration of its
secretion, serves to indicate to the body both darkness and the
length of the night. This signal is used to regulate the timing of
biological rhythms.

Religious Nuttery

Joshua Feuerstein is pissed about cups that don’t have any
Christmas shit on them. Donald Trump figured he could take part in
the Starbucks boycott and thinks he can make saying merry Christmas
mandatory in America.

Also known as the correspondence bias (Baumeister & Bushman,
2010) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize
personality-based explanations for behaviours observed in others.
At the same time, individuals under-emphasize the role and power of
situational influences on the same behaviour. Jones and Harris’
(1967)[28] classic
study illustrates the FAE. Despite being made aware that the
target’s speech direction (pro-Castro/anti-Castro) was assigned to
the writer, participants ignored the situational pressures and
attributed pro-Castro attitudes to the writer when the speech
represented such attitudes.

The tendency to search for or interpret information in a way
that confirms one's preconceptions. In addition, individuals may
discredit information that does not support their views.[29] The
confirmation bias is related to the concept of cognitive
dissonance. Whereby, individuals may reduce inconsistency by
searching for information which re-confirms their views (Jermias,
2001, p. 146).[30]

Religious apologetics – what does that
mean? What are some categories or types of arguments that are
considered apologetics?

Music break three songs-Saved by Shelly Segal, from
the atheist album check her out on her websitehttp://www.shelleysegal.com/
, Fuck you by Bad Religion off of True North and A Beautiful
Indifference by Rise Against -9:40

Main topic
PC language and censorship

Misc. Topics

Is the Atheist movement falling apart?

Canadian politics

About the Podcast

The Brainstorm podcast is Saskatchewan's first skeptic and atheist podcast. An eclectic group of local skeptics discuss a variety of topics relating to science, skepticism, religion and politics while having a few drinks and a few laughs.